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Dear Mr Macmillan,
Many thanks, it is very agreeable to get anything out of America. I have a story of the time of Henry V and James I of Scotland – about half out in the Monthly Packet, and all written. I was thinking of proposing it to you for Christmas when it will be finished in the Monthly Packet. Might not some arrangement be made about it with Scribner. I could either send them the numbers already in type the MP – or they might be printed at once, and the duplicate sheets sent up to the end. I do not think we ever came to any agreement about the Chaplet itself – whether you give me £200 as before for the first edition.

I do not know what has become of the proof of the Parallel History. The printers sent me the copy, evidently printed from but no proofs with it.